There's a family we knew who were cousins of really good friends of ours

我们认识一家人是我家好朋友的表亲
that would come down there.

他们从阿拉斯那边过来
There was a boy the age of my daughter then.

有个和我女儿年龄相仿的男孩
I guess he was twelve then.

我猜他那时有十二岁
We met them and we had a good time talking to them.

我们见了面并且相谈甚欢
Then I asked how they were at Thanksgiving

之后我问他们感恩节过得如何
when I went over at thanksgiving.

那时我刚过完感恩节
In France we don't celebrate Thanksgiving,

在法国我们并不庆祝感恩节
but I had ten days, so why not?

而我却庆祝了十天为什么不呢
They were dead.

他们都去世了
Not the father, but the son and the mother

不是父亲而是儿子和母亲
had been killed by World War I.

因为一战而死